Chapter 1507: Touring the Ironclad Ship Production Base

  Chapter 1507 Inspection of Ironclad Ship Production Base

On September 15th, the fifteenth year of Tianxuan, Qu Mao, who had not lived in the lord's hut for three days after returning from Liandao, once again left the lord's hut in the Holy Land of Emperor Yi's territory. It has been nearly half a year since Qu Mao left the Marquis of Shaliu.

Boarded a naval super warship from the civilian pier outside Yidao Fisherman Village. Christine Sirian was entrusted by Sylvia Oshen to be in charge of the production of the ironclad ship, so he offered to do it for Qu Mao himself. Drive a super warship and accompany Qu Mao to the southeast corner of the eastern peninsula of the East Continental Bay to inspect the No.

Originally, Xuande suggested that Qu Mao visit the artillery factories on Jidao and Liandao in the Holy Land, and then go to the construction site of the engine factory planned to be built in Liandao, and then go to the desert outside Shacheng in the province of Gillette, the tassel empire, on the main continent of the eastern mainland. Take a look at the armor factory that is being built, and finally go to the first iron-clad shipyard in the southeast corner of the eastern peninsula of the East Mainland Bay to see the production of the iron-clad ship.

  But Qu Mao obviously has no interest in this, and he doesn't think these parts factories need to supervise them himself.

In order to match the production capacity of the ten shipyards planned for the production of ironclad warships in the coastal area of ​​the main mainland of the Eastern Continent, the Outlying Island Power Research Institute began to build an engine factory in Liandao; In the desert, on the site where the former metal mine was backfilled, the workshop and staff quarters of the armor factory are being built next to the steel factory.

  The reason why the armor factory was built at this location is that it is relatively close to the raw material site, and the metal ingots smelted by the steel factory can be directly pulled to the armor factory for further processing.

In addition, at the southernmost end of the reef chain, which belongs to the reef chain naval military base in the Holy Land of Yidi, it was found that the reef contains a large amount of metal elements. These reefs themselves are metal ores. Ocean's application requires land reclamation on the southernmost reef chain of the reef chain naval military base to facilitate the development of those metal ores.

  Emperor Yi's territory has undergone many upgrades, and the area around the reef chain has also expanded a lot. Now it is a reef chain with a width of 50 kilometers and a length of about 500 kilometers, but there is still a vast sea between the reefs.

Naturally, Sylvia Ocean did not reject Mengde's reason, and Sylvia Ocean was also concerned about the production of ironclad ships, not only allowing Mengde to arrange residents to go to the southernmost end of the chain of reefs to reclaim land, and even to build land from the sea. Naval logistics support personnel who are very experienced in reclamation and land reclamation were dispatched from the Reef Chain Naval Military Base to assist Mengde in reclamation and land reclamation.

  Although those reefs themselves are metal ores, the Ministry of Industry had to carry out land reclamation first, otherwise it would be inconvenient to process them.

After Qu Mao heard the news, he immediately sent someone to send to Meng De the development planning map of the southern area of ​​the reef chain drawn by Qu Mao. The southern area of ​​the reef chain planned by Qu Mao not only included the metal mining area that Meng De was currently engaged in, but also Simultaneously extending to the north, there are also iron smelters, steel factories, armor factories, and cannon factories. The entire area is more than ten times larger than Mengde's own plan.

Just when Mengde was preparing to complete Qu Mao's mission with a bitter face, Sylvia Ocean saw Qu Mao's plan, and immediately made a lot of calculations, and immediately arranged a large number of naval soldiers to go to the south of the reef chain area, actively helping Mengde to carry out large-scale land reclamation.

  Even the manpower dispatched by the navy far exceeds the number of residents hired by Mengde himself.

Sylvia Ocean's idea is very simple. If the southern area of ​​the Reef Chain is fully reclaimed according to Qu Mao's plan and the infrastructure is in place, a production base for ironclad ships can be built anytime and anywhere. After all, the Reef Chain is far from the outlying islands. The Fukumura Shipyard is not far away. It has artillery and armor, and it can build an ironclad ship with the engine of the island.

Qu Mao didn't even send the plans himself, so when Meng De and Sylvia Ocean were in full swing for land reclamation, Qu Mao was on the super warship driven by Christine Sirian himself. On the way, head towards the Ironclad Ship No. 1 Shipyard at the southeast corner of the Eastern Peninsula in the Eastern Continental Bay.

  Before the super warship entered the dock of the First Ironclad Shipyard, Qu Mao ran to the deck very early, took out his binoculars and looked carefully at the coast.

   Xuande, the No. 1 Ironclad Shipyard, was not fooled. From a distance, it looked like a dense piece of darkness, spreading at least five kilometers along the coastline.

  Fucun Shipyard on Outlying Islands is the earliest shipyard in Yidi's territory. Its scale is smaller than a village, but Qu Mao thinks it is not an exaggeration to regard the No. 1 Ironclad Ship Shipyard as a town.

After entering the dock of the No. 1 Ironclad Shipyard, Qu Mao jumped onto the dock from the super warship, and found that the dock was surrounded by wooden scaffolding near the sea, and countless steel bars were tied together. Countless workers were struggling to climb on the scaffolding. Climbing down, Qu Mao quickly discovered that the metal frame was not only a scaffold, but even the internal metal structure of the ironclad ship was being built simultaneously.

   It’s just that welding technology has not been developed in Yidi’s territory now, so the internal structure of the ironclad ship is either bound multiple times with thinner steel wires, or fixed with screws and nuts.

However, the welding technology was only in Qu Mao's mind for a while, because Qu Mao vaguely remembered that welding seemed to require the use of electricity. Find out for yourself.

   Qu Mao regrets that the ironclad ship sample from Fukumura Shipyard can sail freely in the sea, but neither the cheating system nor the birdman system has been approved. Therefore, there is no ironclad ship construction blueprint generated, otherwise why is it so troublesome?

   It can only rely on the skilled craftsmen from Fukumura Shipyard to build the ironclad ship bit by bit according to the method of producing ironclad ship samples at Fukumura Shipyard.

   Qu Mao also kept reassuring himself that maybe after the other ironclad shipyards in the Yidi Territory are completed and put into production, as the number of ironclad ships produced increases, there will always be blueprints for ironclad ship manufacturing.

  As long as the blueprints are generated, Yidi Territory can use the method of synchronizing game construction and real construction to quickly obtain a large number of ironclad ships.

   After staying in the first ironclad shipyard for two days, Qu Mao followed the coastline and looked at all the ironclad shipyards that were built and under construction one by one.

   Whether the navy of Yidi Territory can permanently dominate the sea in the future depends on the number of armored ships installed, and the production efficiency and production technology of iron-clad ships will also be improved in the process of mass production.

  (end of this chapter)